Western Experience: Combined Edition

The first civilizations; the forming of Greek civilization; Classical and Hellenistic Greece; the Roman Republic; the Empire and Christianity; the making of Western Europe; the early medieval East; two centuries of creativity; the summer of the Middle Ages; the Crusades and Eastern Europe; the West in transition - economy and institutions, society and culture; reformations in religion; economic expansion and a new politic; war and crisis; culture and society in the age of the scientific revolution; the emergence of the European state system; the Wealth of Nations; the Age of Enlightenment; the French Revolution; the age of Napoleon; foundations of the 19th century - politics and social change; learning to live with change; national states and national cultures; Europe and the 19th-century world; the age of progress; war and democracy; the great 20th-century crisis; the nightmare - World War II; contemporary Europe; epilogue.